Basil the Great Mouse Detective

• Title — Basil the Great Mouse Detective • Designer — Bob Armour • Publisher — Gremlin Graphics • Composer — Ben Daglish • Platforms — Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum • Released — 1987 • Genre — Platform, action-adventure

The protagonist of the game is a mouse named Basil who resides in the basement of the fabled 221b Baker Street home of Sherlock Holmes. The evil Professor Ratigan has abducted Basil's friend, Dr. Dawson, and he now has to scour London for hints that will help him find the villain's hideout.

• Illustration — Atari 8-bit screenshot The player controls Basil by walking around the chambers, passing from one to another through the edges of the screen (if possible) or squeezing through letter slots and other holes in the walls. In the locations, in addition to numerous enemies, there are various objects. Most of them are just decorations, but in each level there are at least two types of containers in which Basil can find items. So when the player spots a container, bin, jar or something similar they should search it. Once the player has collected all the evidence in a level, they need to find the passage to the next stage, which was previously masked. The above steps must be repeated until the game is completed, and there are a total of three levels: London's shops and docks, the sewers and finally the hideout of the evil Ratigan.

• Game Mag (French) • Pelit (Finnish) • Micro Mania (Spanish) • Micro Hobby (Spanish) • Your Sinclair - January 1988 • Tilt - February 1988 • ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - December 1987